26. Low rate of activity and high unemployment rate.

(Programme for Young Farmers)

The situation is even worse in rural areas, where the female unemployment rate is 15.34 per cent, considerably more than the rate of 7.94 per cent for men.

Unemployment rates

Unemployment rate

At the same time, unemployment among women exceeds, as before, unemployment among men (which is 7.2 ).

Higher rates of open unemployment and underemployment.

(l) Unemployment rate ( )6

With 19.3 per cent the unemployment rate of women is almost twice as high as that of men (10.4 per cent).

Heads of household. General unemployment rate and breakdown by sex 1993 1996

If the LFPR had remained at its pre recession high, the unemployment rate today would be nearly 12 . If it had stabilized when the unemployment rate peaked in October 2009, unemployment today would be over 9 .

As for urban unemployment (21.5 per cent), there is only a small margin between the sexes, the figure for women being 20.9 per cent and that for men, 21.8 per cent.

Male university graduates have an unemployment rate of 4.9 , as against 9.7 among men without a degree.

The female illiteracy rate is 50 per cent. The unemployment rate for women is 14.7 per cent as opposed to 11.5 per cent for men.

Unemployment remains high, at a rate between 36 and 41 per cent in the Gaza Strip.

The rate of unemployment is higher for women than for men, 40 compared to 29 respectively.

Unemployment rate was 10 .

Unemployment and poverty rates are very high.

Between 1992 and 1996, the unemployment rate has grown from approximately 10 to 30 per cent, with significantly higher rates during periods of closure.

Unemployment rates for females are higher than those for males, and youth unemployment is greater than that of adults.

At 13.0 per cent the unemployment rate of this age group is on the one hand lower than the overall unemployment rate in the new Länder but on the other hand, it is markedly higher than the relevant rate in the old Länder.

18.11 The region is suffering from low rates of economic growth and investment, resulting in high unemployment rates, particularly among youth.

Estimates of unemployment in Iraq indicate that the absolute number of unemployed rose dramatically in 2004, to 3.2 million.

The Committee notes with concern the trend of rising youth unemployment rates and the rise in long term unemployment.

There was high indigenous unemployment in urban areas.

The unemployment rate among black women is 17.9 per cent but among white women it is only 3.9 per cent.

With the broad definition of unemployment, the rate of unemployment in Namibia is estimated to be 34.5 in 2000.

The unemployment rate is very high in sub Saharan Africa and South Asia and is increasing in some developed countries.

In 2003, GDP per capita was over 485, inflation stood at 3 urban unemployment was 5.78 , of which the unemployment among women accounted for 7.22 .

Unemployment continues to rise.

In 2000, the unemployment rate for young males aged 15 24 was 15.7 the rate for women was 16.8 .

That figure had decreased slightly, however, between 2002 and 2003 for both women (0.5 per cent decrease) and the overall population (1.4 per cent decrease).

Among the unemployed women, 16 had a higher education, 38 , a general secondary education, and 27 , secondary vocational training.

In the US, the unemployment rate in the fourth quarter of 2007 was 4.8 , 9.8 in March May 2010, and 5.7 in November 2014 January 2015. In both countries, the unemployment rate is therefore slightly above the pre crisis (end 2007) level, with no significant net difference over the business cycle from the end of 2007 until now.

Table 6 Trends in the labour Force, Employment and Unemployment, 1993 94 and 2000 (BROAD DEFINITION OF UNEMPLOYMENT)

The high unemployment rate among women was a reflection of Latvia's overall unemployment rate, which stood at 10.6 per cent.

The unemployment rate of young men (aged 15 24) was 16.9 in 2003, and the figure for young women was 26 .

The Committee is concerned that unemployment rates remain high, with significant regional disparities.

Also dropping is the level of unemployment among women. If it was 12 in 2001, it was 11.2 in 2002 and 10.4 in 2003.

Table 6 presents trends in the labour force, employment and unemployment, based on the narrow definition of unemployment and the broad definition of unemployment respectively.

The employment rate for females between 15 and 64 years of age had increased from 40 per cent in 1994 to 56 per cent in 2004 the female unemployment rate was down to 3.6 per cent, and long term unemployment of more than one year stood at 0.8 per cent.

As of June 1997, the unemployment rate was some 16.5 per cent, with almost 268,000 persons unemployed.

That's mapped against the red dot, unemployment, which is a simple Bureau of Labor Department statistic.

In 2003, the percentage of unemployed males of the labor force was 10.2 (compared to 8.4 in 2000). In 2003, the percentage of unemployed women was 11.3 , compared to 9.2 in 2000.

As a conclusion, we can say that